{"id":1425,"date":"2024-08-27T05:59:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2024-08-27T05:59:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:59:37","slug":"bookster-claims-it-paid-royalties-for-each-book-lent-but-not-to-the-publishing-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Bookster claims it paid royalties for each book lent but not to the publishing houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bogdan Georgescu, one of the founders of Bookster \u2013 the innovative library turned into a book delivery service, currently engaged in a dispute with the publishing houses, said that while it operated as a public library, it paid the royalties in line with the relevant legislation to the relevant collective intellectual property management body CopyRo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/companii\/retail-agrobusiness\/conflictul-dintre-edituri-consiliul-concurentei-bookster-cum-22469273?mc_cid=349b7a4753&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The royalties seem to be the essence of the lawsuit between the parties: while Bookster claims it paid its dues lawfully but not to the publishers, the publishers claim Bookster evaded paying the royalties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest publishing houses in Romania requested that Bookster pay them the copyright fee for the public loan that Bookster was paying to the collective management bodies,&#8221; he explained the essence of the lawsuit won by Bookster in the first instance.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the competition body slapped several major publishing houses and bookstores for alleged coordinated decisions not to sell books to Bookster. The subjects will appeal the fine.<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian Publishers Association (AER), when launching the case against Bookster, claimed that Bookster &#8220;is buying books like any commercial company, but then lend them out, behaving like a public library and making profit without paying royalties by author,&#8221; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/economedia.ro\/ionut-trupina-librariile-humanitas-amenzile-consiliului-concurentei-sunt-nejustificate-si-pun-mari-probleme-de-existenta-pentru-firma-vor-impacta-toata-piata-de-carte-in-cascada.html?mc_cid=349b7a4753&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economedia.ro<\/a> quoting Ionu\u021b Trupina, General Manager of the Humanitas bookstore.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lapandr\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bogdan Georgescu, one of the founders of Bookster \u2013 the innovative library turned into a book delivery service, currently engaged in a dispute with the publishing houses, said that while it operated as a public library, it paid the royalties in line with the relevant legislation to the relevant collective intellectual property management body CopyRo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}